The True Face of William Shakespeare

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Offers a convincing solution to the centuries-old problem of the appearance and identity of William Shakespeare and answers previously open questions concerning what made him abandon his celebrated career, and what may have caused his death.
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Offers a convincing solution to the centuries-old problem of the appearance and identity of William Shakespeare and answers previously open questions concerning what made him abandon his celebrated career, and what may have caused his death.
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Quarto. Good+ in good+ dust jacket. Black spine with gold lettering. Moderate shelf-wear to dust jacket, including a small closed tear at the top of the rear panel and wear to the headband of the DJ spine. Covers clean, binding strong. Text block edges clean. Lower corner of half-title and title pages creased. Text of pages clean and free of markings. 208pp. Translated from the German by Alan Bance. Rockville.

Fine. 1904449565 British first edition, first printing. Contains number line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Virtually no wear to jacket. Jacket is NOT price clipped. Covers are clean and bright. Edges are sharp. No tears or creases. The book itself is in Near Fine condition. The binding is straight and tight. No remainder mark. All books are marked down 35% until December 31, 2016. Start stocking up for Christmas now! !

Fine in Fine jacket. 208 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. This Will Fundamentally Change Our Perception Of Shakepeare As Both A Human Being And As A Writer.

New in dustwrapper. Cloth, 4to, 30 cm, 208 pp, colour plates, ills. From the preface: "In 2006, 'The Year of the Bard', the National Portrait Gallery in London mounted an extensive exhibition dedicated to the great British national poet and playwright. A large number of images. were displayed, many of them claiming to depict William Shakespeare authentically, including the Gallery's. Chandos Portrait. The preparations for this major event included subjecting a number of Shakespeare portraits to laboratory investigation, and the BBC broadcast the results in a series of TV documentary programmes...The build-up to this exhibition coincided with the completion of my long-term research project on authentic images of Shakespeare, and especially with my investigations into the Davenant bust, owned by the Garrick Club in London. In the course of mv wide-ranging research I have unearthed entirely new textual and visual sources, and have made existing source material newly accessible. On this basis, and in collaboration with experts from a variety of disciplines, I have put forward startling new findings with regard to Shakespeare's life and death, and placed them in the appropriate framework of their cultural history. We can now be certain that we possess not only the genuine death mask of Shakespeare but also detailed and accurate images, with clearly visible signs of disease, from three periods of his life. It will be demonstrated in this book that William Shakespeare must have sat in person for these true-to-life likenesses." Contents include: Prefaces; Part I The Context of Cultural History: the Image of Man in the Renaissance and Baroque; The Individual, Creative Achievement, and Posthumous Fame; The Rediscovery of Artists' Techniques in Roman Antiquity: Death and Life Masks in Sculptured Portraiture; Funerary Monuments and Busts; Portraits; The Depiction and Diagnosis of Symptoms of Disease; Moral and Theological Reasons for Lifelike Portraiture; Portrait Engravings; The Portrait Artists' Dilemma; Part II The Images Under Investigation: the Previous State of Knowledge; the Chandos Portrait; the Flower Portrait; the Davenant Bust; the Darmstadt Shakespeare Death Mask; Part III Tests of Identity and Authenticity on the Basis of New Research Methods and Expert Assessments; Examining the Basis of Investigation; the Funerary Bust of Shakespeare in the Church at Stratford-Upon-Avon; The Droeshout Engraving in the First Folio Edition; The Methods of Investigation and Their Results; The Conventional Comparison of Images by the German Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigation (Bka); The Trick Image Differentiation Technique Employed by the German Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigation (Bka); Computer Montage; Photogrammetry; Computertomography; Laser Scanning; Medical Expert Assessments of Signs of Illness; Summary; Part IV The New Results; The Chandos Portrait (c. 1594-1599); History and Ownership; The Pointer; The Client and the Fee; Dating; Part V The Results in Their Historical and Biographical Context; Appearance, Identity and Authorship; Painful Conditions, Pathological Symptoms and Illnesses; Religion; Retirement from Professional Life; Last Illness and Possible Cause of Death; Appendix I: the Prospects; the Flower Portrait in the Royal Shakespeare Company Collection, Stratford-Upon-Avon: Original Or Copy? ; Appendix II.

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